Rajesh Lain

Rajesh Lain is a product specialist at CompuwareAPM. He works with customers across the global, helping them in choosing the right application performance management solutions. He has 10+ years of experience in APM, Web and Mobile performance strategies and is currently working focused on APM in the Cloud and Splunk. Follow him at @rjain15

Note: Scott Turner and his team from Verizon Terremark performed the tests on
the Terremark Cloud Platform and other public clouds. Scott can be reached at
scott.turner@verizon.com
One of the most appealing benefits of cloud deployment is the ease of use and
the flexibility of adding or removing compute capacity. You can dynamically
allocate resources based on the changing workloads, which give you the
flexibility in managing your compute cost.
AWS Auto Scaling enables you to closely follow the demand curve for your
applications, reducing the need to provision Amazon EC2 capacity in advance.
For example, if your CPU Utilization goes over 70% you can add additional EC2
instances. Similarly, if your CPU Utilization goes down above a threshold,
you can remove EC2 instances.
Similarly, Rackspace auto scaling can be Schedule-based and Event-based. You
can prepare for a ... (more)